Slow Cooker Jambalaya
Chicken thighs, smoked sausage, peppers and tomatoes slow cooked for 3 hours 30 minutes, then rice and prawns added for the last 30 minutes.
Photograph credit: Jambalaya - Ben Brown by Swift Benjamin · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
How to Make Slow Cooker Jambalaya
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Put the chicken, sausage, onion, celery, pepper, garlic, tomatoes, Cajun seasoning, thyme, bay leaf and 300 ml of the stock in the slow cooker.
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Cover and cook on low for 3 hours.
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Stir in the rice and the remaining stock. Cover and cook on high for 30 minutes until the rice is tender.
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Add the prawns and cook for 10 minutes more until pink.
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Remove the bay leaf, stir in the spring onions and parsley and serve with hot sauce.
Related guide: Choosing rice.
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Notes for Getting It Right
- Add the rice only at the end.
- Add the prawns for the last 10 minutes.
- Adjust the heat with Cajun seasoning and hot sauce.
If You're Missing Something
- Out of spring onions? A small regular onion, finely sliced, or a few chives stirred in at the end both cover the job.
- An eighth of a teaspoon of garlic powder per clove is the stand-in usually given when you are out of fresh garlic; it will not brown the same way, and it burns easily, so add it with the liquid.
- Fresh herbs work in place of the dried thyme at roughly three times the quantity — a teaspoon of dried is about a tablespoon of fresh, chopped.
Serving Suggestions
- Hot sauce
- Cornbread
- Green salad
- Crusty bread
Sides from the same cuisine on this site: Philadelphia Soft Pretzels, Boston Baked Beans, 3 Ingredient Biscuits.
Leftovers and Storage
Keeps for 3 days in the fridge. Reheat with a splash of stock.
Nutrition per Serving
Per serving, calculated from the ingredient list with USDA FoodData Central figures (SR Legacy). A calculation, not a laboratory analysis: brands, cuts and how you measure change the real numbers. How the figures are worked out.
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